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Friday, May 9, 2014

A Mother's Love

With Mother's Day fast approaching, I thought it would be nice to dedicate this week's blog to mothers everywhere. A few years ago, I wrote a song called A Mother's Love. It's a look at the love a mother gives through the eyes of an adopted child. It's intended to show the love of a mother who knows she can't raise her own child and the love of a mother who raises a child that is not her own. Every adopted child really has the love of two mothers and this song is intended to demonstrate that. You may recognize some of the characters described in the song:)

Drawn from the water and the reedsHe would fill her maternal needsOut of harms wayShe would make sure he would stayIn ancient Egypt the story was toldAnd through the years would unfoldAdopted child pulled from the NileTo lead his people from exile

Because of A Mother's Love

He would find his destiny

Because of A Mother's Love

He would be what he was meant to be

In old Kansas on a poor farmA child was sheltered from harmThe last one from his raceHe had traveled through time and spaceA strange visitor to someBut to her he had becomeThe answer to a prayerIn the form of adopted son

Because of A Mother's Love

He would find his destiny

Because of A Mother's Love

He would be what he was meant to be

In the Windy City not too long agoOvernight a family would growShe would tell him in a songHow they had waited oh so longNever forget for single minuteNot born under heart, but in itHe's not sure what it all meansBut he continues to hope and dream

Because of A Mother's Love

He will find his destiny

Because of A Mother's Love

He will be what he is meant to be

PEARLS OF WISDOM

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." - Abraham Lincoln

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." - Mark Twain

"All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington

NEXT WEEK AT A GLANCE
Sunday, May 11: Happy Mother's Day!! (Also would have been my dad's 77th birthday)

Monday, May 12: 8:20 Jon in parent meeting
12:00-1:15 Jon to Stevenson High School